Ghost in the Machine

If any of you subscribers out there happened to receive an email today about an old yes, have some. post, I apologize. I admit, I subscribe to my own blog (just to make sure the subscription service is working!) and was quite surprised to find a yes, have some. email in my inbox today considering I hadn't posted today. For a second, I thought maybe the other elusive half of yes, have some. had finally come out of his shell. Alas, it was only feedburner acting all crazy-like. So again, I apologize for getting you all excited about the possiblity of new etsy stuff? the new toby line? any other various projects? hmm? well, hopefully all these things will be coming to your inbox soon for real!

Fondly, Crystal

Oh! also, I forgot that I was going to post the design for the Cheese on Bread t-shirts. I love love love it! So, here it is:

Summer Daze

Summer is in full effect. Today is a scorcher with a predicted high of 90 degrees! Holy hell! The heat has forced me to wear the flip flops today, which i'm not a huge fan of. My feet aren't super duper busted, but I still don't like to look at them if I can help it. With the onset of summer comes the onset of the not-wanting-to-do-anything-but-lounge-and-be-outside-whenever possible mindset, and not-in-front-of-the-computer-if-I-can-help-it mode. I'm not going to outright say this is the reason for not posting in so long, but I may allude to that.

Anyway, Etsy stuff is selling. A little slower than I had expected, but a few items have gone since we last updated. The nested bowls were sold to a very lovely lady in Texas. She said they were very special to her and she was so happy when she received them. As for our own stuff, Andrew made another duffel. After much cursing and sweating, I made a little lined zipper pouch.

One Mandor is done, but i'm not really happy with him. His arms came out too skinny and he looks generally, rough! I sewed most of that one on the machine, but it's really hard to control when you're working with such small pieces. I don't know why I was avoiding hand sewing like the plague, but the one i'm workin on now has been mostly hand sewn. Now i'm also realizing that I probably should be using different material. Back to square one, dang.

Andrew started making these bracelet thingies too. I'll post pictures when I get a chance.

Fondly,
Crystal

Cheese on Bread

The past few weeks I've been working with the band Cheese on Bread to design their European Tour posters and t-shirts. It's been a lot of fun because they pretty much gave me free reign over the poster. I'm happy with the end result, and more importantly, so is the band. The poster design came first and the t-shirt sort of followed it's lead. The band already had an idea of what they wanted the t-shirt to say, so that part was pretty easy. The design of the poster was inspired by the name of band's new album, "The Search of Colonel Mustard". My first instinct was, of course, Clue™. The well known board game and movie. It seemed pretty obvious, but I didn't want to just blatantly rip off the classic movie poster or do something that was overly Clue-esque. So instead, I just tried to get the same feeling and make it cute and poppy. Here are the English and German versions. They are pretty much exactly the same except for the text:

The t-shirt design has yet to be finalized. Once that gets the green light I'll post it as well.

Fondly,
Crystal